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Stop confusing your brain!

January 21, 2011 – 3:23 pm

Being in an intimate relationship with a passive aggressive person creates a paradox – while you are together to create and encourage a romantic relationship, his passive aggression urges him to avoid intimacy and withdraw from connection. When he shuts down and turns away from you, it can feel as if you’re the only one [...]

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Questions and Answers about Passive Aggressive behaviors

January 4, 2011 – 11:03 am

Sometimes, we need to share ideas with other people as to understand completely some conflictive issues…getting feedback helps us put issues in perspective. In this blog, we usually propose to you some texts that you can read and think about by yourself… Now, this is a different take: you have here a dialogue with questions [...]

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How to talk to a resistant husband?

December 2, 2010 – 12:00 pm

Have you ever despaired of being understood, repressing those feelings of isolation and despair inside you? And why? Because you are afraid of creating a worse conflict if you speak up! My best friend, Anne, was at the end of her rope. Of course she was developing ulcers and was taking some kind of pills [...]

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Passive Aggressive Conflicts: Words Women Use

October 12, 2010 – 1:38 pm

Women in passive aggressive relationships, or PA women themselves, often develop a vocabulary specific to their situation. This vocabulary, innocent as it appears, can cause numerous communication problems between the PA and the partner trying to handle them. Fine – An “I give up” way to quickly end an argument. Cliche and used often in [...]

By Neil Warner | Posted in assertiveness, impact of passive aggression, passive aggressive behavior, Passive Aggressive Husband, passive aggressive marriage, passive aggressive personality | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

How to Resist Passive Aggressive Sabotage

October 5, 2010 – 1:07 pm

A passive aggressive partner will often employ sabotage as a means of getting what they want in a relationship. For example, a passive aggressive partner may do a bad job when asked to clean the house, so that the other person will “learn” that if they need something done, they should do it themselves. Another [...]

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